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Richard Nummer experienced the brutality of war on Iwo Jima. He and his buddies witnessed Japanese soldiers lying with...

Jack Holder did not talk about his World War 2 experiences until recently. He booked a trip to New York on an Arizona...

Fred Bergeron saw three carriers as well as battle ships, cruisers and destroyers spread out over a very wide area. The...

Being a farm boy and being used to hard work, as well as having a disciplinarian uncle who had been in the service,...

John Geiger was shipped to New Guinea [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 31st Infantry Division]. They went through...

After three months in Japan, Edward Bale had the necessary points to rotate back to the United States. He left Nagasaki...

Clifford Albert Hahn was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when he heard about the dropping of the atomic...

Monroe Scherer had lost a year of studies due to illness as a child. When he turned 18, he was still in high school. He...

Lester Hecht's wife [Annotator's Note: Lillian] did not mind moving back in with her parents, when Hecht went to war....

At Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands], Donald Draxler was apprehensive, but not afraid to...

Baptiste was involved in 12 or 14 different battles in the Solomons. They lost heavily on the heavy cruisers like the...

Gonzales had a brother who was a guerilla who was caught by the Japanese and never returned. All they were able to hear...

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